Southern Tasmania Surf Forecast by Craig Brokensha (issued Wednesday 12th September)

Best Days: Late Friday, Saturday morning, Sunday, Monday

Recap

A good reinforcing SW swell yesterday morning to 2ft, with the odd bigger one along with good clean conditions, small to tiny this morning.

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This week and weekend (Sep 13 - 16)

The surf will become even smaller tomorrow, tiny to flat with no new swell energy due until later Friday and more so the weekend.

Late Friday's swell is currently being generated by a great fetch of stalling W/SW gales south-southwest of WA and we should see a late pulse to 2ft across Clifton with a peak to 3ft on the sets Saturday morning.

Winds will be favourable all day Friday and from the N/NW, with an early W/NW breeze on Saturday giving into a W/SW change as a strong cold front pushes across us.

This frontal system will produce a new reinforcing W/SW swell for Sunday, with a polar fetch of W/SW gales forming south of WA tomorrow evening, projecting slowly towards us through Friday, Saturday and Sunday, generating a mix of W/SW energy.

Clifton should see a bit more size with 3ft to occasionally 4ft waves on Sunday with W/NW winds, easing Monday from 2ft to maybe 3ft with a straighter N/NW offshore.

Looking into next week and smaller acute W'ly swells are due across the South Arm generated by strong but poorly aligned frontal systems in our swell window.

It will keep Clifton active but without much size. More on this Friday.